Road and Ground materials available in LumenRT?

Hello All,

I have LumenRT Update 10 installed.

I'm looking at the materails - I'd like to apply materials like "bitumen" and "bare earth" (and similar) to the large areas of roadway and terrain I have in the LRT model, but those types of materials are not available.

I've been searching the posts here and found a couple of refernces to this same question - but no answer.

How (or where) do I get Civil type materials to apply to the non-building portions of my LumenRT project?

Going to the Terrain tool and trying to "paint" a material across the entire area of roads or earth just is not a reasonable option.

Thanks,

Michael

  • Hello Michael ,

    Currently Road material not available in LumenRT, However you can change material to standard and apply texture map to imported geometry from other product such as Microstation

    Thanks & Rg

    Harshad



  • Hello  Harshad,

    "However you can change material to standard and apply texture map to imported geometry from other product such as Microstation"

    What does this mean? Do you have a link to a recording that shows how to do this?

    If LumenRT is the visualization application for all projects developed using Bentley software, when will "Civil" materials be added to LumenRT?

    Thanks,

    Michael

  • Hi Michael,

    You can create some materials in MicroStation and have swatches or polygons with the materials applied like a palette export this with your scene then you can pick from these materials and apply to the elements in your scene in LumenRT. I showed this before in previous SIG couple years ago...remind me tomorrow and I can show during the SIG see you there. Might be able to export as vob and bring in that way I seem to recall making the one I used in the shape of an artist palette with several materials to pick from.

    Cheers,

    Jerry

  • Thanks Jerry,

    I did create some materials from resources supplied with OpenRoads Designer, and have added those into the LumenRT materials dialog (palette?).

    Can delivering these types of materials be added to the LumenRT product teams "to do" list?

    Far easier than each individual (or company) having to create their own

    Appreciate the reply.

    Michael

  • I have the same question, the terrain painting tools in LumenRT has some really good gravel materials, but to apply these to objects from Microstation is not possible. And I can't create similar materials that look the same in MicroStation. To be able to use painting of areas outside the model in Lumen and have the same materials applied to ground from MicroStation would be gret. Now there is a abvious difference here. Or maybe I'm doing something totally wrong ;) (Not been workign with Lumen that much.....)

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